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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-06

wiser II not better man than he was two
suns ago. He came to Griffin Friday with
several dollars in his pocket, intent on
having good time. He invested portion
of his wealth in two gallons of whisky,
with which he filed himself to the brim
At this stage he claims that several city
darkies took him in hand got all his money,
took his whisky and turned him loose on the
cold charities of the world, fifteen miles
from home, and without a cent. He says
he will take out a warrant for those who
robbed him.
Near Taylor, Crawford county, Saturday
Daniel Hulto, a planter, reached the age of
100 years. Mr.. Hulto has been a resident
of that section a good number of year S,
having been among the earliest settlers of
the county. He was volunteer in the war
of 1912 and remembers incidents that oc-
CURED as far back as 1892. His age and
feeble health would not permit him to take
part in the struggle Of 1861. Nevertheless
he cherished the cause and advised his only
son TO volunteer at the age of II. Mr.
Hulto has been enjoying first-rate health for
several years until q few weeks back His
health is now feeble.
Americas Recorder: Mr.. H. j. Morgan,
Recorder subscriber in Drayton, Dooly
county, was in Americas Friday, and paid
our office a short visit. While talking, he
pulled out a handful of fine pecan nuts and
laid them on the table Upon inquiry we
found he had q fine pecan tree on his place,
from which he had already sold over $50
worth of nuts, and had raised quite q crop of
cotton under the tree. HestiIl has nuts to sell,
and number of small pecan trees In a
few years the pecan tree industry promises
to be quite large in Sog hwest Georgia, as
many farmers are putting out small trees,
for the demand for the nuts can never be
fiiled, and there is big profit in them
Washington Chronicle. We have in our
possession the books Of A. p. Bignor show
ing what he made off one and a quarter acres
IN thirteen consecutive years Mr. BiQnon's
garden was near Augusta, and the results
nereIrom are astonishing. They fairly take
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-06

North onehalf lot No. 16, two quarters; 10
No. 20, four quarters; lot No 80, four quarters
south one half lot No. 40, four quarters lot No
q. two quarters.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
Goinc Back to Simplicity.

It is evident that the days of bric-a -brac
are numbered, and that we are about to
feel strong reaction toward the classic
styles and severe simplicity. The archi-
tectS and decorators i'm New York say that
people profess themselves weary of the
clutter they have been having round them
in their houses and asked to be furnished
in white and gold. OF course this was to
be expected sooner or later. In former
and less hurried times the reaction
would have been delayed some time lon
ger, but in these days fashions change
with great rapidity.
Very likely we may go all the way back
to the Grecian type of house before we
stop, when once the mania for simplicity
sets in, and If any one would know what
that type is beautiful example may be
seen on Broad street, near Girard avenue.
This is a house built about forty years
ago by the late Mr. Styles. 1t is very
beautiful in its plain square of white
marble, with the smallest portion of clas-
sic ornament and a great relief to the eye
after the bewilderment of curious things
which lately have been getting built.
The people in the suburbs who are put
ting rustic stone walls of preposterous
thickness around their tiny Queen Anne
boxes had better take warning that they
will soon be out of style. Philadelphia
Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
disclosures of English Private Life.

The queen of England has set the eX-
ample of writing accounts of private life
almost unprecedented for their disclosures
of domesticity. She prattles about her
court and her family, her servants and
her friends; tells stories of their sayings
and dOings as well as Of her own, in a
style that oversteps all the ordinary bar
riers of delcacy or reticence. The
English, high and low, but especially
the high, follow the precedent. Hard
ly year elapses without the pub
LEGATION of memoir by some persons of
quality, replete with gossip and some
times scandal, about persons Of import
ance and unimportance w ich the subjects
never expected would be revealed. To
say nothing of the exceptional Greville
memoirs, there are Lord Beaconsfield's
letters, Lord Houghton's monographs,
Lord Macaulay's biography, Lord Nal
mesbury's memoirs, Lord Minto's, Lady
Bloomfield's, Lady Clementina Davies,
and last month Sir Francis Doyle's, all of
which have appeared within ten or fifteen
wears: all are crowded with incidents of
so called private life, repetitions of private
conversations, revelations of private char
acter; all were largely read and admired.
1 never heard one of them criticized for
the freedom of their disclosures in the
twelve years that lived in England
Adam Badeau's letter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06

The drinking habit in men is mostly a
matter of appetite, but appetite has very
little to do with the lunching of women.
She becomes regular frequenter Of the
ladies' lunch room because she loves a
crowd. She delights in variety, and be-
cause of her innate vanity If every
woman had separate. room to lunch in
there would be 10 lunchers. There is in
consequence a spirit of rivalry in these
lunch rooms which makes them as fas-
cinating as a horse race. Every woman
means to be ahead of her neighbor, either
in the quantity or quality Of the lunch
she orders. There Is no hanging back,
and the woman will start a race with the
same lunch and they come in neck and
neck with the same steaming fourth cup
of tea.
Sometimes it is like watching game of
poker. Four women, strangers to each
other, will sit at the same table. They
are all regular lunchers. Each is reluct-
ant to give her order first, because each
is DESTROYS of lettering her neighbours
repast. At length one of them, with the
dir of q man who holds two jacks and q
pair of aces, orders plate of turkey and a
cup of coffee. Her neighbor Immediately
orders plate of turkey, a cup of coffee
and plate of ice cream! The next one
sees that plate of turkey, the cup of coffee
and the ice cream, and goes one better
and orders chicken salad. The fourth,
seeing how matters stand, decides on her
play. She has not so much money Us the
others. She can't go the turkey, the
chicken, the ice cream and the coffee
So she quietly scans the board and makes
magnificent bluff with an oyster pattie
''1'll take that first" she remarks to the
waitress. Then she dallies with the bill
of fare and sits out the other three, win
ming the game with 25 cents.-New York
Mail and Express.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
Indian Gamblers and Jockeys.

All Indians after while become expert
card players, and the Flatheads are no
exception to the rule. These latter gentry
are not afraid to try their skill and nerve
with the sportive frontiersmen OF the
northwest, with whom they frequently
have long sieges of draw. To these en-
perienced gamblers the local fry are as
children. Many q young buck with no
inheritance to speak of has enriched him
self amazingly at the expense of wayfarers
who have fallen by the wayside. Some
of these youngsters who draw the right
card at the right time have fine large
herds of ponies to their credit in conse-
quence thereof AS jockey riders the
Flatheads and their relations have per-
haps no equals on earth. Raised as they
are from childhood almost on pony's
back, so to speak, it is no wonder they
become superior equestrians.
When preparing for race the young
bucks skin themselves of their clothing
so as to present as little resistance to the
air as possible. A Flathead jockey
mounted for business is dressed in moth
ing more than brech clout and perhaps
n thin cotton shirt, which floats in the
breeze but offers no impeachment to rider
or horse Leaning forward on their hardy
little cayuses they dash down the race
course like the wind, jumping bitches
and lodging trees with q precision and
skill truly marvellous. The white mans
race course is fiat, level stretch of
ground, rolled smooth, over which the
animal simply runs while the rider has
nothing much to do except hold his seat.
On the other hand, an Indian will race
over any kind Of ground, among timber
on, swimming steams, combining with the
simple speed of his animal individual skill
and Judgment in surmounting q score of
obstacles and always coming under the
wire ahead A white man seldom wins q
race from an Indian, and there is no
wonder for it.-New York Commercial
Advertiser. =. .-.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
The WIDOW Of Gen. Pickett.

Among the visitors at the panorama of
Bull Run at Washington the other day
was lady of striking appearance, who
seemed greatly interested in the picture
of the fight. When the lecturer began to
describe that portion of the battle near
the railroad track and said "the conflict
here can only be likened to features of
the battle of Gettysburg, and the dash
made at this point is said to have equaled
the famous Pickett's CHARGE the lady
seemed to take a greater interest in the
picture and when she turned to look at
the lecturer he recognized her as the
widow of Gen. Pickett, that dashing Vir.
ginian who led the Confederate charge at
Gettysburg. The lady is living at Wash
ington now and her name appears on the
paw roll of the interior department as a
laborer. But Mrs. Pickett is not required
to do laborer's work. She is assigned to
clerical work. She is refined and cul-
tured woman and is only one among the
widows of renowned soldiers on both sides
of the late war who I'LL small places here,
wNew Orleans Timss-D Democrat,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
Thrilling Scene in a Street Car.

A handsome woman of 80 or there
abouts, accompanied by an attenuated
youth, entered Broadway car last night.
The woman carried Scotch terrier in her
arms and vainly looked about the car for
a seat. Presently stout man with huge
cavalry whiskers arose and offered the
woman his seat, which she took without
a "thank you," while she held the dog
up under her chin so that he could look
out Of the window In few minutes a
passenger next her vacated his seat, and
before the fat man could get to it sh : had
pulled her escort down into it The fat
man glared but said nothing. After the
car had gone several blocks further an
other passenger arose to get out. The
woman's attenuated escort touched the
stout man and pointed to the seat
No, thank you," said the stout man
as he ambled toward the door, "I get out
here. Give 1t to your dog. New York
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
Onions for Winter Use

There are many ways Of keeping good,
sound, ripe, dry onions. Tho great point
Is to keep them dry. You must remcm-
Der that even ripe, dry onion contains
Mt least so per cent. of water, AMI when
a large mass of them are kept together
they are liable to sweat and the skins and
tops become damp, and, IL the tempera-
ture is above freezing, they will throw
out roots and begin to grow. Joseph
Harris, in The American Agriculturist,
says: "If necessary to keep onions in q
large mass put them in q dry pla &c, such
rs a shed or a barn" In many localities
they will freeze solid and stay frozen till
the spring, in which case they must be
well covered to keep them from thawing.
In smaller quantities onions can be
placed In slat boxes, holding about a
bushel each. The lower boxes should he
placed on boards and not on the cellar
floor. Pile the boxes ono above the other
IN such a way as to "break joints" and
admit of O circulation of air all round
and through the boxes.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
How to Make Superphosphate.

In all sections of the country the value
Of superphosphates as fertilizer is ap-
preciated. Many farmers would make
their own superphosphates if they knew
just how to manage the ingredients Any
one who has an apparatus for steaming
food for cattle, can make superphosphate
in quick style by admitting steam from
the boiler into the barrel containing the
water, acid and ground bones. The heat
thus generated quickens the dissolution
of the bones in wonderful manner, and
II the process is properly conducted It VIII
not take over twenty-four hours. 1t is
indispensable that the barrel be tightly
covered to retain the steam.
If you have inch bone ground in bone
mill and feel you cannot afford to purchase
sulphuric acid to work it up into super
phosphate, you can reduce the bones to q
fine powder by mixing three parts Of
loamy soil to one part Of the ground bone.
Tho bone will soon begin to heat and fer
ment. Then it will cool off, when you
must work the mass thoroughly, 1t will
then begin to reheat and fremont and cool
down again, and you must continue to
work it over until brought to the proper
state of fineness.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
Facts Farmers Ought to Know.

IactS armCTS ouSuC 10 AuOWs
Good results from bagging grapes re-
ported from every section. Clover makes
the farm rich.
Fay's prolific currant has sustained it's
good character as big yielder of the
largest sized red currants.
A short clip of wool is one of the effects
of drought reported from Texas.
The marked advance in the price Of
wool is the natural result of the general
shortage in the wool clip.
Wyandottes and the better strains of
Plymouth Rocks, appear to be running a
neck to neck race for popularity as general
purpose fowls.
Ventilation is better than refrigeration,
say leading fruit dealers.
Everybody who has a stock of hops on
advance in prices.
Good sized horses are in demand.
Apples are plentiful and there is fair
export trade.
the grass and weeds are fully dried. Fire
in the fall saves much wedding in the
spring.
Lovett, the nursery man, uses first o
cushioned head for pressing apples into
a barrel in packing. Several newspapers
may be employed instead, under the per-
manent head. The cushioned head or the
newspapers are removed after the apples
are pressed, and the permanent head is
ready to be fastened down.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
Tho Trades People Of Paris.

Paris ! Is utterly given over to the
Philistines in the shape of class known
here as 'the buying Americans" who
swarm at this season thicker than the
locusts during the plaques Of Egypt. I'm
bued with the semi provincial idea that
Paris is the center of the universe and
can satisfy every taste from the elegant to
the depraved. they take a hurried fight
to the cool haunts of La Suisse or Ger
many, and then descend upon the town
for the summer, when it is deserted by all
save the bourgeoise and the ever present
shopkeeper. The latter class is glad
enough to have the, to them, always rich
Americans. With open arms and fulsome
fiattery they receive them, and proceed
with alacrity to load them down with
last winters styles at figure which
causes the true Partisan to grin with sar-
donic JOY. ...-
The trades people of Paris, from the big
hotel keeper to the proprietor of the
second rate cafe, from the swell dress
maker to the small workingman, are a
set of thieves and pickpockets, whose
peculiar object for venomous attack is
the long suffering American, who pays in
silence and endures with heroic fortitudc,
who is ignorant of the language, power
less to defend himself and unwilling to be
warned by the cry of his countrymen who
have been neeced before him. If the
Americans were only not SO wildly anx-
ious to begin and buy! But they cannot,
cannot wait one minute after their arrival
to learn some native process whereby to
cope with the rapacity of the Partisan
shopkeeper and they are made to pay for
bad pictures, defective statuary, trum-
perry and articles de virtue in French gilt
and poor bronze, with which they proudly
return home to found art galleries and
instruct the untraveled. TO this class
Paris is still that glittering, brilliant
fairy creature endowed with immortal
faith. the mistress of the world and
crowned with the same glory she wore
when Napoleon III reigned over her and
called to her festal board English and
Americans, both to be royalty entertained.
Paris Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
A Potato of Promise.

The best potato among GOO varieties in
any fair test is certainly high distinction.
A Seeding, which has been christened
Rural New Yorker No. @" has been
singled out as worthy of distinction on
the experimental farm of The Rural New
Yorker. This Seeding produced the past
season an extra large yield of large,
smooth, shapely tubers, characterized by
uniformity of size, excellent quality and
few eyes. This potato has been placed in
the hands of u leading New York seeds,
man for propagation and dissemination.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
Floral Nordhis.

The recent chrysanthemum show in
New York city did good work for every
body interested in these most valuable
and attractive of fall and winter flowers,
by calling attention to new and desirable
varieties. There are three classes Of chrys-
snthmums; the Chinese bearing large,
loose flower; the pompons, with small
double flower, and the Japanese, with
ragged fringe like flowers. From these
have resulted numerous hybrids. A
Chinese variety, with incurred petals Is
attracting attention.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
To Increase Flow of Milk.

The following advice is applicable to
every farmer who keeps cows. Especial
~ if followed during the winter season.
Give your COWS three times day water
slightly warm, slightly sailed, in which
bran has been stirred ut the rate of one
quart to two gallons of water. You will
find that the cow will not only give much
more milk, but she will become much at
tached to the diet. The amount of this
drink necessary is an ordinary water pail
full each time, morning, noon and night.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
Crops Of the Country.

Mr.. Dodge staticlan to the department
Of agriculture, states that the area Of
Indian corn in the. United States has in
creased 20 per cent. within the past six
years. Corn occupies moro than half the
area in cereals and produces greater value
than any other crop, except grasses, for
hay and pasture According to the last
crop report, the average yield this season
is % bushels per acre, or LOGS, COZ, 900
bushels.
The wheat yield for the country is esti-
mated to be about $50, 600, 900 or 12H
bushels per acre. Rye will yield a little
less than wheat, or 11.8 bushels per acre.
The oat crop was badly damaged in Sow
eral of tho large producing states. The
average yield Is estimated at about 261{
bushels pss scss, Which lusugss acsan q
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
THE CHINESE INCURRED TYPE.

A Japanese variety just introduced to
the public as Mrs. Grover Clevland"
bears pure white flowers with straight
70 ind petals rointing downward. Another
newcomer of Japanese parentage chris
tened LILLY Langtry" is a mass Of yellow
tangled and ragged petals. The new rose
"Papa Gautier" introduced by John Hen
derson 1t is believed will run q neck race
with american Beauty" and the "Ben-
nett" for favor.
The cactus promises to displtce orchids
as q fashionable craze, and Japan prim-
rose (Primala obconica) has suddenly be-
come favorite for window plants at the
north and west.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
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CARVING A TURKEY.

A skillful carver places the fork in the
bird and does not remove It until the
whole is divided. The turkey having been
relieved Of strings and skewers used in
trusting, should be placed on the table
with the head or neck at the carver's left
hand.
rssst insert the fork firmly rs indicated
in the figure, then remove the whole leg
and thigh by cut shown at q; next re-
move the wing by a cut, as at b, letting
these parts lie on the platter. Then cut
downward as many slices from the breast,
the white meat, as may be desired Gas
shown in the lines at g.; thea make an
opening into the cavity Of the bird, hid
den in the figure here given, by the leg,
for dipping out the inside dressing. Next
separate the leg from the thigh or second
Joint. The side bone is removed by cut
ting down from above as shown at dd.
The wing gives one good cut, that nearest
the body. II ono side Of the turkey is
not sufficient, the other may be carved In
the same manner as described.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
BEFORE THE BREATH OF STORM.

Before the breath Of storm,
While yet the long, bright afternoons are warm,
Under this stainless arch of azure sky
The air is filed with gathering wings for flight;
Yet with the shrll mirth and loud delight
Comes the foreboding sorrow OF this cry
Till the storm scatter and the gloom dispel,
FAREWELL Farewell! FAREWELL
Why will We go SD soon,
In these soft hours. this sweeter month than JUNIOR
The liquid air floats over field and tree,
A veil of dreams-where do We find the stingt
A gold enchantment sleeps upon the sea
And purpled hills-why have ye taken wingi
But faint, far heard, the answers fall and swell
FAREWELL FAREWELL FAREWELL
Charles B. Roberts In "Outing"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
Winter Storing Of Celery.

Celery can be stored by burying in the
row where it grew, by placing in trenches,
or by packing in sand in q dark, cool eel
lar. The first method is the one most
practiced in the southern states. The
usual plan among eastern and northern
growers is to pack it away in narrow
trenches.
The storing trenches are made about q
foot wide, or the width of spade, and
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
Pitch forE Handlea.

don't like the way pitchfork handles
are made. The handles are too large
round toward the fork. I had one such
and the men all Stunned it. fused it and
my Land was cramped grasping so large
a hold. could get no others ut the store,
SO / bought two of the usual size and
shape. / took them into my shop and
with plane and spoke shave altered one
third of the lower part to an oval, the
widest way up and down. These forks
are now the favorites.-Rural New
Yorker.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06
Preserving Cabbage in Trenches.

Amateurs read in one agricultural jour
nal how cabbages are stored, heads down
with great success; in another journal
they read how cabbags are stored, roots
down, with equal success. This apparent
contradiction is puzzling to beginners, but
old cultivators understand what makes
the two modes perfectly practicable.
Placing cabbage compactly in trench,
with the heads down, applies only to those
fully headed. The main object in invert-
ing them being to turn off the water. But
there are immature cabbages to be stored.
Cabbages that require further heading
and sometimes more growth. These are
properly placed in trenches, roots down,
60 rs to keep them alive.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-01-06

over uvv,vvv,UuU bushels. Inc general
average Of the barley crop is 22.4 per
acre, which is above the average for a
series of years. Buckwlieat promises
product exceeding II, 900, 600 bushels. The
average yield for the hay crop is close upon
45, 600, 900 TONS The potato product shows
higher yields in the east and lower in the
west than last year, giving product for
the whole country Of 1853, DOC, 600 bushels